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Our episode on the Dick and Medal had a brief mention of efforts to keep the UK free of rabies.

And we also just got an email from listener Whitney on the subject of a mass rabies exposure in the news.

And we have been working on plans for our trip to Morocco in November,

which is a country considered to be a high risk for dog rabies.

Basically, we're just thinking a lot about rabies right now.

So, seemed like a good time to replay our May 9th, 2022 episode on the History of Rabies.

Enjoy!

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I-Heart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

Foxes are one of many wild animals that share cities and other places with human beings.

And in April, one of them made headlines after biting at least nine people around the U.S. Capitol.

When this story crossed my Twitter feed, I became incredibly invested in whether everybody who got

bitten by this fox had gotten their rabies shots afterward. News articles were not telling

me the answer to this information. Some of them were talking about a specific reporter or a specific Congress person, but I was like,

no, everybody, everybody needs to get the rabies shots because foxes can carry rabies.

Rabies is virtually always fatal once people develop symptoms or once anyone develops symptoms.

But today's rabies prophylaxis is almost 100% effective at preventing that from happening.

It is, I think, the most effective vaccine that we have in existence.

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